normally I would save Hannibal analysis for my tiktok girlies, and I’ll probably wind up deleting this and posting it there but i’m having thoughts about rumi’s ideas of the consumption of the human soul by g-d and post-death existence and hannigram’s relationship.
the idea that humans are put on earth only to be inevitably subsumed by a being infinitely more knowing than ourselves, who allows us free will only for the thrill of pulling us back into them. The idea that we cease to exist when traces of our personhood are inseparable from that of another being, and that this is an ecstasy. that we as humans are defying g-d when we do not seek to tangle ourselves with each other and with him to the point of self-destruction. Mirabai’s Dark One. Nammalvar’s Takeover. To love a g-d is to become a vessel of their desires and Will Graham is the erotic mystic at the alter, ready to become one with his divine lover
